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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. i

ISAAC STROUSE, OF NEW HAVN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR- TO LOUIS SCHIELE 8s CO., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,405, dated March 20, 1883.

Application flied December 26, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ISAAC STROUSE, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvcnted a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and theletters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a rear view; Fig. 2, the three backstays detached. f

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of corsets which are designed with special reference to a spinal support. In order to properly support the back, broad and heavy stays or springs are essential. If these stays are made sufficiently broad and straight, they do not readily conform to the shape of the body at the right and left of the If the stays are straight, they cannot conform to the shape of the body so as to follow up onto the shoulder. The central stay, if of equal width throughout, either is too stron g at the waist and downward, or too weak above, according as the stay is wider or narrower, the strongest support being necessary above the shoulder-line. The object of this invention is to construct a corset to avoid these difficulties; and it consists in a corset having a back made as a wholethat is, from the vertical shoulder-line of one side to thevertical shoulder-line oi' the other side, its two edges connected to the adjacent or hip sections of the corset by lacings, the back provided with a central or spinal stay, gradually expanding from the bottom end upward to the top, and .a stay at each side, curved upward and forward and downward and forward from the waistline downward, and also from the waist-line upward, the curvature of the stays conforming to the shape ofthe wearer, and as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents' one hip-section, and B the other. The hip-sections and the front section may be of any of the usual constructions, immaterial to this invention. Gr' is the backsection. The corresponding edges of the backsec- Y tion and the two hip-sections are provided with 5o eyelets, so that the sections may be laced together in substantially the usual manner of lacing back-sections to the sides.

The three back-stays D, E, and F are shown detached in Fig. 2. The central or spinal stay is made usually about one inch wide at the lower end, and gradually expands to, say, twice that width at the upper end. The side stays E, F, are cut on a curve, as shown, and preferably of equal width throughout, usually 6o about one inch and one-eighth. The backsection is made in three parts, G, H, and I.

G, the central part, conforms substantially to the shape of the central stay, D. It is made from double fabric, and forms a pocket for the stay D, broken lines indicating the stay in that part Gr. The two parts H I are united to the part G, preferably from the waist upward and downward, extending about two-thirds the length of the corset, leaving a space, a, at the 7o top and bottom between the central part, G, and the parts H I, with an elastic connection,

b, across the space between the parts. The parts H I are also made double and stitched to form a pocket for the stays E F, that pocket 7 5 curving corresponding to theV stays-that is, upward and forward and downward and forward from the waist-line.- VBroken lines in the parts H I indicate the shape and position of the stays when in place. VVlhen the corset is So upon the person the central stay, G, lies upon the spine, and because of its broad upper end or gradually-increasing width from the lower end upward, a rm support is given to the back stronger at the top than at the waist 8 5 line. The two side stays, E F, curve from the waist-line upward onto the shoulders, and downward toward the hips, thus giving a support to the shoulders, and aiding in the backsupport.

I do not claim, broadly, a corset having a back provided with stays or bushs and laced at its edges to the adjacent hip-sections. Neither do I claim, broadly, a corset-stay increasing in width from one end to the other, as such, I ani 95 aware, is not new; but

A corset having a back-section laced to the .Y i. f

adjacent hip-sections, the vsaid .back-section Ward and downward and forward, substanprovided with aeentral stay, D, gradually iutially as shown and described.

creasing in Width from the bottom to the top, Y

Combined with the two stays E F, arranged ISAAC STROUSE respectively in the back at the left and right Witnesses:

of the` central or back stay, D, the said stays JOHN E. EARLE,

curved from the waist-line upward and for- J 0s. C. EARLE. 

